“How do I live each day so that a felt consciousness of living in a Presence can grow and deepen right within the experiences of daily life? The habit of felt sensing (Focusing) is a practical, physical way to open my body’s consciousness to the transcendent giftedness of everything, including events that threaten biological life. [...]
Category Archives: Focusing
Enlightenment: the liberation of concepts
In Focusing, we learn that concepts can interfere with experiencing things as they are, freshly. I recently learned, through @Ali Miller, about a teacher called Gangaji. When I read Gangaji’s writing about the nature of her enlightenment, I was deeply moved because I recognize what she calls the liberation of concepts. Her words make enlightenment [...]
Discipline, submission and love
Inspired by Bindu Wiles’ 21.5.800 challenge and her writing on discipline, “Discipline, the word we mostly cringe at,” I think of discipline as surrender, not as in I surrender to an opposing army but as in I surrender, swooning, into the arms of a lover. If – I envision the practice to which I submit [...]
Felt-sensing occurs in us every day
Eugene Gendlin gives an example of how felt-sensing occurs naturally: “Imagine you have that funny feeling that you have forgotten something, a kind of inner discomfort or conflictual feeling inside yourself that just won’t go away. You scrunch up your face, bring your hand to your head, searching around inside of yourself. Not this, not [...]
The Value of Focusing
Today I am appreciating the value of Focusing in my life. Gene Gendlin says, “No matter what you do, with Focusing, it will go better.” And how true that is! I guide and teach Focusing because I am passionate about how it supports me in being whole and want to share that opportunity with others. [...]
I know nothing ahead of time
My certification as a Focusing professional took place on April 1st, 2010. Of course, during my certification assessment, I spent some time listening to my insides. At the close of my Focusing, they gave me a knowing. As I stepped forward into the “fullness of this” (my self as a certified Focusing professional), my insides [...]
Spirituality in Coaching, Counselling or Psychotherapy
For many of us, bodily feelings have vague meanings. With Focusing, staying with these subtle bodily feelings brings new, clearer meanings. The coming forth of new, clearer meanings is a process that is both spiritual and transcendent. It is transcendent because it involves moving beyond a former frame of reference in a direction of higher [...]
The simple power of being a companion
“For hundreds of thousands of years … a friend or companion has sat down quietly on the ground close by and listened. And little by little some kind of opening has come, and there has been some sense of a way forward…. It seems more than probable that these simple things have been known at [...]
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